With some 64 percent of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, with credit card debt near $1 trillion, total household debt at $17 trillion, it’s middle class having shrunk 11 percent since 1970... what’s another $10 billion of U.S. taxpayer’s money to be sent to Ukraine?
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NATO SPEEDS UP UKRAINE WAR WITH MORE TANKS TO UKRAINE
The momentum by NATO states to provide Ukraine with tanks picked up steam after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called out countries for dragging their feet on the matter after criticizing Berlin for dithering on the decision to approve its prized Leopard tanks.
BERLIN PEACE RALLY, LIKE U.S. PEACE RALLY, DENOUNCED BY MEDIA AND POLITICIANS
This past Saturday, an estimated 50,000 people went to Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to call for the end of all weapon shipments to Ukraine and to push for a peaceful settlement.
TOP TREND, NEW WORLD DISORDER: PROTESTERS STORM BANKS IN LEBANON
On 16 February, swarms of Lebanese citizens broke windows in two of the country’s banks and set tires alight on streets to protest the sinking value of the country’s currency, the Lebanese pound.
Top Trend 2023: Office Building Bust
A quarter of white-collar businesses in London, England, are reducing their office space as their workforces go remote and another 18 percent are moving to shared or co-working locales, a Bloomberg Intelligence survey found.
INFLATION IN U.K. SLOWS AGAIN IN JANUARY
Inflation’s pace slowed in January in Great Britain for the third consecutive month, easing back to 10.1 percent per year from December’s rate of 10.5 percent, the Office of National Statistics reported.
CANADIAN HOME PRICES DIVE 15 PERCENT. WORSE TO COME, STUDY SAYS
The average price for a home in Canada slipped 1.9 percent last month compared to December, running the string of declines to 11 consecutive months and dropping the average by 15 percent compared to January 2022.
ECB OFFICIALS AT ODDS OVER NEXT RATE HIKE
European Central Bank (ECB) officials voiced differing views last week of the central bank’s next move on interest rates.
EUROPE’S BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES CLIMB TO EIGHT-YEAR HIGH
Business bankruptcies across Europe rose 27 percent in last year’s fourth quarter compared to the third as more companies that had survived the COVID War on government aid finally failed, the Financial Times said.
EUROPE’S NATURAL GAS PRICE FALLS TO LOWEST SINCE MID-2021
On 17 February, the benchmark price of natural gas in Europe dropped below €50 per megawatt-hour, its lowest in 18 months, as mild winter weather kept gas reserves plentiful amid adequate alternative sources of supply after Russia cut off virtually all gas exports to the continent.